quenya_grammar1-5 Exercise 3: Taking Words Apart ================================================= ciryallon cirya + -llon ship, ablative, general plural "from the ships" ciryalillo(n) cirya + -li + -llo(n) ship, partitive plural (-li), ablative "from some ships" Difference: the first is "from the ships" in general; the second is "from some of the ships" (the partitive plural, Chapter 3). The final -n is shown in brackets because the page gives it as optional. Both forms are printed in the Wikipedia table (formal register), so they are attested in that source; as with all the forms in this course, they have not been checked against Tolkien's letter. The glosses "from the ships" and "from some ships" are built by rule.